hermaphrodite

Senso (Inglese)

Noun

1. (dated, offensive) A person possessing ambiguous sexual organs or characteristics.
2. Cosexual: an organism possessing both types of gonads; a flower possessing both stamens and pistils.
3. Dichogamous: an organism which begins its life as one sex and changes its sex over its life cycle.
4. A person or thing possessing two opposing qualities.
5. A hermaphrodite brig.
6. A farm wagon convertible to multiple purposes.
7. (World-War-I, historical) An armoured fighting vehicle having features of both male tanks and female tanks.

Adj

1. (dated, not-comparable, offensive) Having ambiguous sexual organs or characteristics.
2. (not-comparable) Having both ovaries and testes or both stamens and pistils.
3. (not-comparable) Combining two opposing qualities.

Concetti

ermafrodito

ermafroditismo

monoicismo

androgino

ermafrodita

ginandromorfo

sinonimi

androgyne

hermaphroditic

bisexual

eunuch

intersexual

androgynous

homosexual

epicene person

epicene

gynandromorph

intersex

bisexual person

synoecious

gay

hermaphroditism

monoecious

neuter

transvestite

monoecism

androgynism

synoicous

monoclinous

Traduzioni

hermaphrodite

hermafrodita

hermafrodita

Zwitter

hermafrodiet

Hermaphrodit

hermafroditismo

hermafrodita

hermaphrodisme

hermaphroditisch

hünsa

andrógino

dígamo

zwittrig

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/hɝˈmæfɹədaɪt/

Etimologia (Inglese)

From Hermaphroditus, the mythical son of Hermes and Aphrodite, who merged bodies with a naiad, thereafter having both male and female qualities.